What is meant by the term ‘Analytic’?
(a) A term used for a language which tends to use free morphemes to indicate grammatical categories.
(b) Examples are Modern English and French to a certain extent.
(c) Other languages, such as Chinese or Vietnamese, are very clearly analytic and approach a relationship of one word per morpheme.
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
Language typology is:
(a) The investigation of the manner in which languages change their structure over time.
(b) The study of the synchronic structure of languages for the purpose of classifying them according to recurring patterns and regularities.
(c) The studies the uses to which linguistic insights can be put, especially in second language teaching.
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The study of the synchronic structure of languages for the purpose of
classifying them according to recurring patterns and regularities.
What is meant by the term ‘Linguistic area’?
(a) A part t of the world in which several genetically unrelated languages are spoken but which nonetheless show structural similarities.
(b) Such areas usually form an approximate geographical unit, e.g. the Balkans, the Caucasus, perhaps the eastern Baltic Sea region.
(c) The term is a translation of language federation”.German Sprachbund, lit. ‘language federation’
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
What is meant by the term ‘Cross-linguistic”?
(a) Refers to phenomena which occur in several different languages
(b) In investigations which draw on data from diverse languages
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
What is mean, by the term ‘Isolating language”?
(a) A language type where individual words do not vary m form and where grammatical categories and relations are indicated by separate. words and/or by word-order.
(b) English is fairly isolating:Chinese much more so.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
Typological classification’ means:
(a) Refers to phenomena which occur in several different languages or in investigations. which draw on data from diverse languages.
(b) The ordering of language on the basis of shared grammatical structure rather than on historical or genetic grounds.
(c) A group of languages that can be shown to stem from a single. proto-language by a process of splitting at various points in the latter’s history.
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The ordering of language on the basis of shared grammatical structure rather
than on historical or genetic grounds.
What is meant by the term ‘Universal’?
(a) Any feature or property which holds for all languages
(b) These are few and far between though near-universals, i.e.
(c) Those which are good for the vasi majority of languages
(d) Are more common and often more interesting in the insights which they lead to concerning the nature of human language in general
(e) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
Linguistic universals’ means:
(a) A postulated set of linguistic features which are common to all languages and which ultimately derive from our psychological make-up and our perception of the world, e.g.
(b) The existence of subject, predicate, object or first, second and third pronouns in all languages.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
What is meant by the term ‘Polysynthetic”?
(a) Refers to phenomena which,occur in several different languages.
(b) The description of the grammatical structure of language independently of genetic relationships.
(c) A reference to a language which has large complex words in which several grammatical categories are fused together.
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A reference to a language which has large complex words in which several
grammatical categories are fused together.